beau.

Frequently we hear parents talking about the small daughter's "beau."

Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves

It was her time, then, to admit that there was nobody, really -- that she had gone out on an adventure by herself, that there had been no "beau."

The Island of Faith 1937

She said she had never written a letter and she didn't know how to, or what to say, but there was bundle of love letters in her mother's top bureau drawer which had been written to her by an old "beau."

Anne of Avonlea 1909

She said she had never written a letter and she didn't know how to, or what to say, but there was bundle of love letters in her mother's top bureau drawer which had been written to her by an old 'beau.'

Anne of Avonlea 1908

Catching sight of the squirrel, Hortense snatched it up with caresses against her neck, and the French governess sputtered out something of which I knew only the word "beau."

Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903